«Ich komme von weit her», with these words, Joachim Gauck, former President of Germany, opens his moving testimony of childhood and life under the totalitarian system of the former German Democratic Republic. In a very personal speech, he describes hope and faith as the driving forces of an enlightened system of values, and it is the latter that has makes him hope “longer and more courageously” than others.
«Das, was uns die Freiheit zu künstlerischem Schaffen und freiem Denken garantiert, genau das muss geschützt werden.»
— Joachim Gauck
